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How Seeds Move (2025)

  • Lesson Plan Creator: Caleb Daly
  • Grades: Grade 1
  • Subjects: Science
  • Part of Class: Creative Movement
  • National/State Fine Arts Standards: Create, Respond
  • Tags: Creative Movement

Using creative movement, students will explore the many different seed shapes and how the movement of wind, water, animals, or gravity can help a seed move to a new place to grow.

Learning Objectives/Goals

Using creative movement, students will explore the many different seed shapes and how the movement of wind, water, animals, or gravity can help a seed move to a new place to grow.

Materials Needed

The book Seeds Move! by Robin Page. A drum and instrumental music.

Introduction

Go through class expectations, play the game of drum says, introduce the topic of seeds and why they need to move, ask how they travel to a new place and what are the four ways a seed has help to move.

Warm-Up

Investigate making contrasting shapes inspired by different seeds. Ask students to think of seeds they know to make a shape of and have all students make their own individual shapes. Bring out the book to talk about how seeds have specific helpers that move them. Explore locomotor ways to move through the space using action words that correspond with the four ways a seed has help to move.

Investigate

Build a pattern of four seed shapes and four corresponding locomotor action words that help the seed move. Examples could be dandelion seed shape with the movement of wind, coconut shape with water, or acorn getting picked up by a bird and flies away. Have students go through pattern all together several times to work on memorization. Add in music for them move in the space but for each frozen shape stop the music.

Create

Split the class into smaller groups of students to create their own pattern by changing the order of the existing pattern. Take turns for each group to perform for each other.

Reflect 

After each group performs, ask the students that observed what the pattern was and anything they noticed in the shapes or how they moved in the space.

Extension to the Lesson

Using the same groups, have students come up with a new pattern of seeds that weren’t talked about and what helps those seeds move. Create a new pattern of four new seed shapes and four corresponding locomotor actions that help the seed move. Repeat the students showing each other and have the students watching try to guess what the seeds and movers are.

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